Camp plans to wake up in Rossio and admits to resist PSP orders

Porta-vozes of the Lisbon Camp for the right to housing said today that participants intend to wake up in Rossio on Sunday morning and are available to resist orders to the contrary from the authorities.

“The goal is tomorrow [Sunday] to wake up here”, said one of the representatives of the movement to the Lusa agency.

The Lisbon Camp for the right to housing again today set up tents in Praça Dom Pedro IV, where hundreds of people plan to stay overnight, one week after the protest at the same place that ended with a police charge on the protesters.

A week ago, after several warnings to remove the tents they had set up in Rossio, the police intervened and advanced on the concentrated crowd in that square.

Asked about the possibility of an identical scenario at dawn today, another spokesman said that protesters are available to resist security forces.

The strategy will be set throughout the night, until around 00:00, between the promoters of the ‘camp’ and the participants, who will be re-joining in plenary delegates, closed to the media.

In the afternoon today, thousands of people demonstrated in Lisbon, on a march between Largo Camões and Rossio to claim the right to housing.

Between demonstrations and so-called camped demonstrations, with hundreds or thousands of protesters, the current protests against the housing crisis began in Porto on October 10 and expanded to Lisbon, also motivating concentrations in other cities.

The initiatives, promoted by civic movements and spread across social networks, demand measures that respond to the crisis in the sector, the control of the prices of essential goods and fuels and defend taxes on the extraordinary profits of large companies in the banking sector.